View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Power; authority; freedom.
(b) Film; viewing; education.
(c) Literature; reading; criticism.
(d) Art; theory; practise.

2. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?
(a) Dull.
(b) Strange.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Ordinary.

3. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
(a) Memoir.
(b) News.
(c) Theory.
(d) Novel.

4. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Students.
(b) Historians.
(c) Literature.
(d) Academia.

5. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Realism.
(c) Ideology.
(d) Communism.

6. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?
(a) Wolfgang Iser.
(b) Jean Paul Sartre.
(c) Stanley Fish.
(d) Roland Barthes.

7. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.
(b) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.
(c) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.
(d) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.

8. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?
(a) Religious ideology and social change.
(b) Religious ideology and social statis.
(c) Scientific discovery and social change.
(d) Scientific discovery and religious ideology.

9. According to Eagleton, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?
(a) Well beyond politics.
(b) Well beyond literature.
(c) Well beyond language.
(d) Well beyond feeling.

10. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?
(a) Memoir.
(b) Biography.
(c) Nonfiction.
(d) Fiction.

11. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?
(a) Political ambition.
(b) Political inertia.
(c) Political consciousness.
(d) Political progress.

12. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) Before WWII.
(b) During the Russian Revolution.
(c) After WWI.
(d) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.

13. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Stalinists.
(b) Liberals.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Bolsheviks.

14. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1937.

15. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?

2. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?

3. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?

4. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?

5. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 529 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample